What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #4366

Hofbräuhaus München --Hofbräu Oktoberfestbier
Oktoberfestbier
ABV: 6.3%; pouring temperature: 53.4 ℉; canning info: PROD: 03.29.2024 EXP: 03.29.2025
Source: local purchase



...I hadn't found much in the way of German import Oktoberfest biers until today...this one is quite enjoyable...

 

...much needed and great news...thanks for spreading the word...

 

I definitely can find some decent enough Pale ales and IPAs around but there’s something about Sierra Nevada, its piney notes that I love and we also got naturally mostly few months old bottles. It’s a beer that hold up well IMO.

Seems like you thoroughly enjoyed Vegas btw, haven’t heard anything awful about Chicago or Illinois beside the horrid winters… cheers.

 

La Cumbre Brewing Co. -- Project Dank - Earth Edition
Experimental India pale ale
ABV: 7.5%; pouring temperature: ℉; canning info: CO: 09/11/24 BB: 12/10/24 #3530
Source: local purchase
Auxiliary vice: Omar Ortez -- Maduro Robusto



4.03/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Clear, golden body; dense and lively carbonation; nice head, white, 1 1/2 fingers thick and lasting. Pleasant aroma; mildly grass-like, herbal and spicy. The flavor plays off the aroma; more intense hop spiciness with elements of pine resin and citrus pith; delicate malt base. Medium body; crisp with a modest palate raspiness; lightly dry overall.

One can always count on certain aspects of La Cumbre's 'Project Dank' beers: always a 7.5% ABV and an overall fine India pale ale beer regardless of hops used. They consider this series an ongoing experimental IPA project. This edition utilizes Mosaic, Meridian, and Citrus hops, all to good effect.

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...made a great beer haul this morning (this is one of the beers)...got some garlic bulbs to plant later this month or perhaps in November and also have been tasked by Mrs. BeerGoot to make tonight's pot roast while she works on a yard sign and neighborhood handouts for out 'Mostly Annual Neighborhood Chili Cook-Off' that we host, nearly every year, in late October...so, while pondering my tasks and obligations within the hallowed hall of 'The Fortress of Solitude', this beer and auxiliary vice are working their magic to put me in the mood to be, well, sort of productive...once I finish things in the 'Fortress'...whenever that time happens...which I'm contemplating at this moment...but thinking there's no rush for anything...

 

Woods Boss Brewing Co. -- Foothills Fire
Red ale℉
ABV: 5.8%; pouring temperature; 41.3 ℉; canning info: n/a
Source: local purchase
Auxiliary vice: Omar Ortez -- Maduro Robusto

 

...great percussion work...is this Nigerian music...???...that or it's a sound of South Africa...

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...late note: looked him up on Wikipedia: South African...listening to a cut entitled 'Many Years Ago'...I definitely get the mbunga music sound, something like Mahlateni and The Mahotella Queens...slower paced than the Mahlateni and the Queens...

...had the pleasure of seeing Mahlateni as well as the Mahotella Queens on separate occasions while living near Washington DC back in the early 90s...have tons of South African and Nigerian music (primarily) from the 60s and 70s...